Abstract Earth, another beautiful exhibition by Wildlight photographer, Richard Woldenorp is coming up at the S.H Ervin Gallery at Observatory Hill, Sydney from 20 June - 3 August, 2008. Richard’s inspiring aerial images have been curated by his good friends, the author, John McDonald and fellow photographer, R. Ian Lloyd. Here at Wildlight we love Richard’s images, and our clients do too, using them in high-end brochures for corporates or as environmental graphics for corporate fitouts.
I’ve been receiving email newsletters ( I don’t remember subscribing) from DooneyStudio, it’s the site of successful young Australian painter and photographer Hazel Dooney. She’s been receiving quite a bit of press lately, due to the boldness and confrontational subject of her artworks. Anyway, I’ve enjoyed receiving her communications, check out here recent work here - it’s punk, meets feminist, meets graphic psychological self-discovery. She has a photography exhibition opening at MARS Gallery in Port Melbourne on the 29th July to 24th August, coinciding with the Melbourne Art Fair. Innocents And Demons will extrapolate on her paintings, with studies of young women in her first photographic exhibition.
What’s interesting to us, is some news that she has licenced six of her images to a niche Australian condom manufacturer, Legends Rubbers, to be printed onto tin packaging. Each tin package will have an image of Hazel’s, containing six rubbers. That’s a pretty unique image usage, which has prompted me to probe into our records to see what the most intriguing usage for a Wildlight image is. I’ll post it soon…
The collaboration of three talented artist, brings to you a unique exhibition. With the very sparkling Gypsy Woods, dancer,performer,model muse,party girl….. as the subject, Photographer Louise Whelan and artist/animator Antoinette Starkiewicz have worked together with Gypsy to produce a set of pin up playing cards. Featuring herself in pin-up poses, Gypsy virtually visits 52 famous destinations around the world. In all of them, Gypsy our cheesecake darling is uniquely nude. On exhibition at the Art House Sydney will be a selection of these images as prints for you to enjoyable experience and purchase. Also on show will be paintings and sketch’s of Gypsy by Antoinette Starkiewicz and photographs and artwork of Gypsy by Photographer Louise Whelan. Its a Gypsy extravaganza!!! not to be missed.
ArtHouse Hotel 275 Pitt Street, Sydney
22 June until 13 July, 2008
It’s been over a week and I’m still buzzing from seeing the awesome video/sound installation by Bill Viola titled The Tristan Project. I saw it at St Saviour’s Church here in Redfern. It’s an installation inspired by Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde. Thankfully the exhibition was extend by another week because I caught it on the second last night! I really had no idea what to expect when I turned up at the Church on Young Street after dark, but soon enough the sound projecting from the church was making my hair stand on end. What greeted me when I walked inside the dark church, can only be described as ‘brilliant’. I took a seat on one of the pews and proceeded to be taken on this trance like journey for 20 minutes, first the Fire Woman scene then Tristan’s Ascension. During that time I experienced almost every emotion my soul had to offer - seriously. The richly textured (and loud) soundscape married with the intense crisp visuals had me screaming for more. Because I lead such a commercial life, this kind of intense creative art was completely invigorating. Unfortunately the two scenes I saw are no longer showing, however you can still catch The Fall into Paradise scene at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 27 July. Go and see it immediately - be creative again!
One of Wildlight’s most acclaimed photographers and master of aerial photography, Richard Woldendorp, is showing a selection of inspiring abstract aerial photographs at his fine art representative - Boutwell Draper Gallery.
Exhibition dates: 13 May - 7 June 2008
Boutwell Draper Gallery - Redfern, Sydney
The aerial perspective is an inspiring one especially in Australia because of its flatness and lack of roads in the outback and some coastal areas, all of which make for an interesting approach fro …click here to read more
Richard is one of my favourite photographers and such a charming gentleman - view all Richard’s stock images on the Wildlight website.
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[Masthead Credit: Image WL330024482, by Andrew Stephenson. St Peters lane way graffiti, inner city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia]
